Another Monday in Trujillo

Every Monday morning we wake up to the sound of mowers and weed whackers as the crews set out to clean and beautify the temple and grounds.

Every three months they get on top of the temple steeple and clean.

Tomorrow is Hermana Gomez's birthday.  She loves to cook and wanted to fix lunch for our temple family.  We set up two tables with leaves in the Hawes apartment since it is the biggest.  The temple presidency was there as well as the Recorder, Pedro Miranda and of course the temple missionaries.  Fifteen people enjoyed good food and company.

President & Sister Casos 

Elder & Sister Gomez light the cake.

On Sunday we attended the Florencia de Mora Ward.  The Baitas and Hermana Tapia attend this ward.  They are some of our favorites.

This husband and wife played the piano and led the singing.  They were very good.
She had a beautiful soprano voice and he played very well.  It is unusual to find
musicians in the church in Peru.

The Sacrament cloths. 

Bill found one of his friends from the temple, Hermano Bocanegra.
He is in the Stake Presidency.

And of course we always run in to missionaries.  It's so fun to see them and feel their enthusiasm.

Hermana Rosa Tapia with Sandy and below with her little granddaughter, Alhessa.
Hermana Tapia's husband is a Stake President.  He also works in the temple
from time to time.

Hermana & Hermano Baita

The Baita daughters.

The Baita son, Juan taught the Gospel Doctrine class.  I doubt you could
find a better teacher anywhere in the church.  He did an excellent job and
I even understood most of it.  He is studying to be a doctor.

Last week was a good week.  Now that we are on shifts, we have more free time.  We worked the morning shift last week and were home by 1 or 1:30 PM.  One day we went out to eat before grocery shopping.  President Diaz recommended the Squalo's Restaurant.  It was very good.  

This was taken outside the restaurant.  We met Fernando.  He is not a member
but we know his aunt from the temple.  She is Peruvian but lives in France with her
husband and family.  They were here for a couple of months after the dedication.
We posted pictures of his aunt's family in an earlier post.

Inside the restaurant.

Waiting for our food.

The house across the street from Squalo's
Check out the front door below.

They have a lot of chinese cars down here.  We saw this one in the mall.
It sells for $13,490 US.

More scenes around Trujillo.............................

A pretty bird on our balcony.

Our favorite bush outside our apartment balcony.